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The Naval General Service and Arctic Discoveries long service group of four awarded to...
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The Naval General Service and Arctic Discoveries long service group of four awarded to Colour-Sergeant Isaac Jeffery, Royal Marines Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Isaac Jeffery.); Arctic Discoveries 1818-1855, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (I. Jeffery. Colr. Serjt. 4th Coy. R.M. 22 Yrs.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (4) £5,000-£7,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Morton & Eden, December 2006. Isaac Jeffery was born at Thurber Haverhill in 1817 and was attested at Woolwich on 26 September 1836. He was a Drummer and Private before becoming Corporal in 48 Company, and was later promoted to Sergeant and then Colour Sergeant in 4 Company. He served aboard H.M. Ships Hastings, Enterprise and Crocodile, being discharged without gratuity on 28 September 1858. He joined Captain Richard Collinson’s Enterprise in 1850. The original object of the voyage was to search for Franklin from the west in company with H.M.S. Investigator but the two ships became separated during a gale in the Magellan Straits. Collinson’s journal records that Jeffery suffered from tuberculosis during the voyage, which in all lasted for more than five years. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in March 1861. Sold with comprehensive research.
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The Naval General Service and Arctic Discoveries long service group of four awarded to Colour-Sergeant Isaac Jeffery, Royal Marines Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Isaac Jeffery.); Arctic Discoveries 1818-1855, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (I. Jeffery. Colr. Serjt. 4th Coy. R.M. 22 Yrs.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (4) £5,000-£7,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Morton & Eden, December 2006. Isaac Jeffery was born at Thurber Haverhill in 1817 and was attested at Woolwich on 26 September 1836. He was a Drummer and Private before becoming Corporal in 48 Company, and was later promoted to Sergeant and then Colour Sergeant in 4 Company. He served aboard H.M. Ships Hastings, Enterprise and Crocodile, being discharged without gratuity on 28 September 1858. He joined Captain Richard Collinson’s Enterprise in 1850. The original object of the voyage was to search for Franklin from the west in company with H.M.S. Investigator but the two ships became separated during a gale in the Magellan Straits. Collinson’s journal records that Jeffery suffered from tuberculosis during the voyage, which in all lasted for more than five years. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in March 1861. Sold with comprehensive research.
Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas (Part 2)
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